Re: Logo Infringement

["Dave Ewing" <rabbit16v@prodigy.net>]

Not only other companies but if you read the initial post on this (the
letter from the lawyer to Dirk) it did say that they had collected $250,000
from a shop that wouldn't take their VW logo down.  Just an observation!

Dave

> > Does anybody actually know of a case where somebody
> > was successfully sued for using an
> > emblem/logo/name/caricature on their site in a
> > non-commercial, non-discriminatory, non-profit,
> > non-slanderous way?
>
> YES. Warner Bros., Disney, Fox, and Sony have all successfully sued
> fan sites dedicated to shows owned by those studios. The studio I
> worked for, at any given time, had at least one pending legal action
> against a non-commercial fan group or individual, and they usually
> got what they wanted from the judge, which was a cease and desist
> order. It was a long standing policy at that company that ANY site
> using images or sounds from one of their copyrighted properties would
> be immediately contacted as soon as any employee came across the
> site.



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